hundreds of opposition protesters detained as thousands hit the streets and one anti-putin leader is arrested. from wall street to main street, fallout from the republicans' failed health care pl plan, finding anti-trump supporters demonstrating in the streets. baseball hail and possible tornadoes. most exciting bracket busting ten seconds in the tournament. scary moment for those riding an escalator that suddenly changes direction. "early today" starts now. >> i hope the weekend was good to you. hope your weekend was good, especially with what's in store.

multi-day threat of severe storms. large hail and damaging winds in the southern plains could be in store for millions today, with possible tornadoes. >> nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking it all. what are you seeing, bill? >> dangerous days ahead. das weather threat mostly large hail. what we saw yesterday, hail. as we go into tuesday people at risk and tornado threat greater. we'll have these threats headed towards dallas tuesday evening. idot again, equally dangerous wednesday. 19 million people at risk, populations center, houston, san antonio, shee port to little rock, chance of tornadoes and large hail. dangerous week ahead. >> that time of year, bill. thank you very much. the russian government arrested hundreds of opposition leaders along with alexei navalny. the state department condemning

the arrest. edward snowden, the american fugitive in russia called it clear injustice. lucy kafanov live for us in london. lucy, what more do we know? >> good morning. we have reaction from kremlin accusing organizers provoking violence. saying the kremlin respects the right to protest legally but dismisses it as unlawful lashing out at organizers for consciously misleading the people. these were the largest anti-government protest since 2012. 60,000 people turning out across russia according to opposition media. in other places like sibera. more than 1,000 arrests, alexei navalny calling for demonstrations after publishing

and accusing prime minister amassing global empire through corruption including medvedev had a special house for a duck constructed on one of his properties. many of the posters you saw featured mocking images of yellow duck toys. navalny in court sentenced to $350 fine. he's an important figure to watch, francis, because he intends to run for president in 2018, an election which putin is widely expected to run for another term. >> nbc's lucy kafanov. lucy, thank you. all right, it's been less than 72 hours since they balked in the attempt to repeal and replace. blame game is going, democrats smiling in d.c. the freedom caucus with the hope have saved planned parenthood and o care. ted poe of texas has resigned

from that group stating in part to deliver on conservative agenda we have promised american people for eight years. we must come together to find solutions to move this country forward. many are pointing to the young trump administration for the vote while trump's own aides are fighting back blameing a broken washington for a failure that could impact the rest of their ambitious agenda. take a listen. >> is the republican party capable of governing? i know the man in white house is capable of governing. i saw it this week. what you saw this week is things are a lot more rough in washington. >> i think it's a real shame. i think the president is disappointed in the number of people that he thought were loyal to him that weren't. >> nbc's tracie potts in washington for us. tracie, the president said he's done with health care now but has a new job for his son-in-law jared kushner. >> a new office he wants to open, american innovation. the white house saying it's trying to streamline how government and government agencies work and make them work

more efficiently like a business, which jared kushner has run. he has not run a government office or agency before, so that's already getting some pushback. in fact, he was trending on twitter early this morning. we expect that announcement and more details about that later today. the other new thing that the president wants to try to get done, which is sort of an old thing, is getting his supreme court nominee approved. there's a vote happening today. they are trying to move him out of committee, but the real challenge is going to be getting him past the full senate. are they going to try to do it as they normally do with 60 votes, which would mvp some democrats will have to come on board or will they call the nuclear option, which is tweaking the rules a bit so they can do it with only a simple majority of 50 votes. a lot of push back on that. >> we'll have to wait to see what happens. thank you. an intense fire in iraq killed at least two people and injured several others after the deadly blaze ignited when three

projectiles hit a busy marketplace in mosul. took place in the city where the iraqi government liberate freddie isis this year. the battle to take back the western part of the city is raging. both civilians and firefighters worked together to extinguish the blaze. the family of a missing tennessee teen released new video in the hopes someone will recognize the girl's voice. that " - take a listen. >> on that side. like that. you take the needle -- >> that's the voice of 15-year-old elizabeth thomas teaching her brother how to sew a confederate flag. thomas has been missing since the 13th when she disappeared with her former teacher. police believe thomas kidnapped the teen, researched teen marriage before the pair disappeared. the wife released these photos with her husband. in a statement she begged him to

turn himself in saying, quote, you know you can't hide forever. for your sake and beth's sake, please go to the police or please just drop beth off somewhere safe. the not too late. the baltimore man that came to new york city to kill black men say he wishes he killed someone more successful in an effort to stop interracial dagtd. according to the news, james harris jackson said he didn't know the man he's accused of killing was elderly. he would have preferred to kill a young thug or successful black man with blondes. he hoped white women would see how strongly he felt and stop dating black men. he's been charged with a hate crime and charged with killing a man. pope francis had a humanizing moment in front of an adoring crowd. he was there for a one-day trip when before stepping on stage to address the crowd he had to use

a portable rest room. in the end the pope emerged for the mass a million strong and went on. >> just like everybody else, you've got to go, you've got to go. this bosnian teen broke a world record breaking 100 blocks with his head, tumbling head first stack after stack of cement blocks. crushing 111. he's a black belt in tae kwon do. after record setting feat he thanked his parents and coach. he said bring on more i've got more power in me. more power to you. >> hardheaded physically but hardheaded emotionally. the story behind accidental death of veteran race car driver that happened over the weekend. first nbc meteorologist bill karins for a look at monday. bill. >> another umbrella day in pacific northwest where we have showers moving in. we're also going to be watching as we go throughout the day rain moving through areas of utah.

otherwise it looks pretty n elevations. 39 not bad, reno at 53 today. we'll talk more about dry tuesday for our friends in the west coming up. >> thank you very much. a fearless diver made a friendly underwater friend, unlikely underwater friend. that's a shark who nudges and bumps the swimmer and cameras signaling for help. turns out he had a huge hook sticking out of his belly. he pulled it out. as a thank you they put on a show swimming around in circles. a little friend. at least this kind of friendly

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right now at 4:30, the fate of the silver and black. nfl owners hunker down with one main question on tap. will the raiders leave for los angeles? thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cann garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. a storm cloud over our beloved raiders. we hope they stay. we have seen our share of storm clouds. >> rain overnight, but now all of that rolling out of here, and we will have some clearing as we go through the day. it will be a nice start to this monday morning. as you head out now, it may still be wet on the roadways as we see the rain moving off to the ooesh. storm ranger still scanning around the bay